| For a traditional agricultural country,the importance of farmers’ burden makes every regime must handle it carefully,and the CCP is no exception.For the dual goals of ensuring financial supply and reducing the burden on farmers as much as possible,Taihang Base Area formulated a detailed and rigorous burden policy,and continued to learn from experience and lessons in the process of grass-roots collection,and finally formed a farmer burden policy with a unified progressive tax as the core.This policy not only played a huge role in wartime,but also provided important experience for the collection of agricultural tax after the founding of the People’s Republic of China.From a macro perspective,the burden imposed by the Taihang Base Area from1938 to 1945 was not too heavy,showing a tortuous downward trend as a whole,especially compared with the enemy-occupied areas and the national-administered areas.However,social survey materials in some grass-roots areas have proved that the grain payment collected by the CCP is not the only factor affecting farmers’ burden.All of these make the livelihood of the people who mainly rely on the small peasant economy difficult.When the growth of the total income of farmers is stagnant or even regressed,even if the CCP’s burden of expropriation is reasonable and appropriate,farmers may go bankrupt.Different from the Japanese and puppet’s simple extortion of people’s power,the CCP,which is mindful of the hardships of the people,seeks to reduce the burden on farmers through comprehensive policies and measures while controlling the amount of collection,and implements the CCP’s general financial work policy of “developing the economy and ensuring supply.” Policies such as economical production,elite troops and simplified administration are linked with the burden policy under the planning of the CCP,and jointly point to the grand goal of reducing the burden on the people and developing the rural economy,forming a comprehensive burden reduction measure,which highlights the relationship and cooperation between the CCP’s wartime policies.During the most difficult period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression,the CCP made a breakthrough in order to reduce the burden on the people and strengthen the fighting force,and achieved great results.Judging from the actual effect of the implementation of the burden policy,even if the CCP continues to improve the policy,problems such as compulsory orders,corruption,and uneven burdens still occur in the grass-roots practice of burden collection.The ills that are difficult to solve in the process of the power down of various regimes.In order to ensure the fairness of burden expropriation and establish the rationality of burden expropriation,the CCP regime has successfully solved the abovementioned problems through investigations,reviews and mass struggles,etc.,and has led the masses’ concerns from burden expropriation itself to class struggle.The relationship between the political party and the peasantry is shaped in the mass movement of the country.The eight-year all-out war of resistance has taken an unprecedented toll on Chinese society.Constrained by the characteristics of the controlled areas,the CCP’s antiJapanese base areas mainly rely on rural areas and farmers for their financial revenue.Therefore,the importance of peasants’ burden to the CCP’s War of Resistance is selfevident,and the CCP’s attention and solution to the problem of peasants’ burden also ran through the entire period of the War of Resistance.In the process of expropriating and rectifying farmers’ burdens,the CCP successfully solved the wartime financial supply problem,weakened the original feudal economic relationship,and stimulated the enthusiasm of the majority of farmers to join the army.More importantly,the CCP regime followed the grass-roots practice of burden expropriation into the countryside,and the relationship between the government and farmers was reshaped,and as a result,it became closely linked with the state. |
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